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2/19/2014

11-year-old suspended from school for voluntarily turning in a toy gun that he had accidentally left in his jacket pocket

Here is yet another nutty zero tolerance story. A kid accidentally had left a toy gun in his jacket pocket and he tried to do the right thing and turn it in to the school. The notion that an obviously plastic toy gun should be turned into school authorities is pretty nutty, but, as if that wasn't bad enough, they suspended the kid and are forcing him to undergo counseling. From the Independent Sentinel in Chicago:

His crime you ask? He violated the school’s weapons policy against dangerous objects. The school might not feel they have much latitude on this issue. The Chicago Public Schools defines the “dangerous objects” policy. The object Caden Cook had is ludicrously considered a “firearm.”

He has been ordered to undergo counseling and, according to The Rutherford Institute which has taken his case, he has also been subjected to intimidation tactics, interrogation, and dire threats by school officials—all without his mother being present. . . .

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Not only are our children being conditioned to accept illegal searches as a norm, he now must be subjected to indoctrination via 'counseling' by government approved agencies! Sounds a lot like any "normal" dictatorship, does it not?